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Log: Planet run at Tue Nov 18 12:00:14 GMT 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1179&r2=1.1180 Delta lines: +30 -32 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-11-18 06:00:37+0000 1.1179 +++ atom.xml 2008-11-18 12:00:23+0000 1.1180 @@ -5,10 +5,33 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-11-18T06:00:43+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:29+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">We now use a CMS and so can youâ¦</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/</id> + <updated>2008-11-18T11:17:49+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>After some time of long and intensive work, we completed our migration to our new infrastructure. We migrated <a href="http://www.arsaperta.com">our corporate website</a> to a new server and we moved from a FreeBSD-powered server running <a href="http://caudium.net">Caudium</a> to a Gentoo platform with Apache running on top of it. You won&#8217;t notice much, except for the language selector. However we changed everything under the hood. Our website was minimalistic and Caudium made it fast.</p> +<p>We now use the <a href="http://www.hforge.org/ikaaro">Ikaaro CMS</a> for our website and will soon use its facilities such as calendar and corporate wiki for everyday operations. Ikaaro is developed by our good friends at <a href="http://www.itaapy.com">Itaapy</a>, a french FOSS company that is located exactly on the other side of the hill of Montmartre, where Ars Aperta is also located. Ikaaro is very easy to use and I encourage everyone to take a look at <a href="http://www.hforge.org">the tools</a> developed by Itaapy: they&#8217;re GPL v3 and some are actually ODF-centric. Last but not least, <a href="http://www.arsaperta.org">our community web site</a> wich hosts many things (although it&#8217;s not being advertised enough) and used to host one of the Pootle servers for OpenOffice.org will stay the same and does not migrate.</p> +<p>I would like to thank everyone at Itaapy and Ars Aperta for this work; stay tuned for announcements related to both Ars Aperta and Itaapy in the future.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=105&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_105" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wiki Becomes an Official Incubator Project</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/910"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=910</id> @@ -49,7 +72,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-11-18T06:00:37+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -126,7 +149,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-11-18T06:00:37+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -180,7 +203,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2008-11-14T06:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -200,7 +223,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-11-18T06:00:42+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:26+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -267,7 +290,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-11-17T18:00:35+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -313,7 +336,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-11-18T06:00:42+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-18T12:00:26+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -466,29 +489,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901</id> - <updated>2008-10-31T15:59:59+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS&#8217; marketing).</p> -<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/">open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en">Metamorphosis</a>:</p> -<p>&#8220;Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.&#8221;</p> -<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> -<p>&#8220;The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. &#8220;The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euros per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3,000 euros per desktop per year.</p> -<p>&#8220;The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. &#8220;It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in OpenOffice.&#8221;</p> -<p>The groundwork of the past few years is beginning to pay off for a large number of first-movers around the world. I expect the migration trend will continue to accelerate as more and more case studies help to sway the slower adopters.</p></content> - <author> - <name>Benjamin Horst</name> - <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> - <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-11-17T18:00:18+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1186&r2=1.1187 Delta lines: +20 -22 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-11-18 06:00:37+0000 1.1186 +++ index.html 2008-11-18 12:00:23+0000 1.1187 @@ -37,8 +37,27 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 18, 2008 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: November 18, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>November 18, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/";> +We now use a CMS and so can youâ¦</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>After some time of long and intensive work, we completed our migration to our new infrastructure. We migrated <a href="http://www.arsaperta.com";>our corporate website</a> to a new server and we moved from a FreeBSD-powered server running <a href="http://caudium.net";>Caudium</a> to a Gentoo platform with Apache running on top of it. You won’t notice much, except for the language selector. However we changed everything under the hood. Our website was minimalistic and Caudium made it fast.</p> +<p>We now use the <a href="http://www.hforge.org/ikaaro";>Ikaaro CMS</a> for our website and will soon use its facilities such as calendar and corporate wiki for everyday operations. Ikaaro is developed by our good friends at <a href="http://www.itaapy.com";>Itaapy</a>, a french FOSS company that is located exactly on the other side of the hill of Montmartre, where Ars Aperta is also located. Ikaaro is very easy to use and I encourage everyone to take a look at <a href="http://www.hforge.org";>the tools</a> developed by Itaapy: they’re GPL v3 and some are actually ODF-centric. Last but not least, <a href="http://www.arsaperta.org";>our community web site</a> wich hosts many things (although it’s not being advertised enough) and used to host one of the Pootle servers for OpenOffice.org will stay the same and does not migrate.</p> +<p>I would like to thank everyone at Itaapy and Ars Aperta for this work; stay tuned for announcements related to both Ars Aperta and Itaapy in the future.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=105&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_105" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/";>by Charles at November 18, 2008 11:17 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>November 17, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -413,27 +432,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>October 31, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901";> -Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS’ marketing).</p> -<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/";>open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en";>Metamorphosis</a>:</p> -<p>“Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.”</p> -<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> -<p>“The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. “The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euros per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3,000 euros per desktop per year.</p> -<p>“The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. “It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in OpenOffice.”</p> -<p>The groundwork of the past few years is beginning to pay off for a large number of first-movers around the world. I expect the migration trend will continue to accelerate as more and more case studies help to sway the slower adopters.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901";>by Benjamin Horst at October 31, 2008 03:59 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1179&r2=1.1180 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-11-18 06:00:38+0000 1.1179 +++ opml.xml 2008-11-18 12:00:24+0000 1.1180 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:00:43 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:00:30 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.536&r2=1.537 Delta lines: +11 -13 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-11-18 00:00:21+0000 1.536 +++ rss10.xml 2008-11-18 12:00:24+0000 1.537 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=910"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/181abaaef6c58d9e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-921724136108677387" /> @@ -32,11 +33,20 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=903"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=600"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=491"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: We now use a CMS and so can youâ¦</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/18/we-now-use-a-cms-and-so-can-you/</link> + <content:encoded><p>After some time of long and intensive work, we completed our migration to our new infrastructure. We migrated <a href="http://www.arsaperta.com">our corporate website</a> to a new server and we moved from a FreeBSD-powered server running <a href="http://caudium.net">Caudium</a> to a Gentoo platform with Apache running on top of it. You won&#8217;t notice much, except for the language selector. However we changed everything under the hood. Our website was minimalistic and Caudium made it fast.</p> +<p>We now use the <a href="http://www.hforge.org/ikaaro">Ikaaro CMS</a> for our website and will soon use its facilities such as calendar and corporate wiki for everyday operations. Ikaaro is developed by our good friends at <a href="http://www.itaapy.com">Itaapy</a>, a french FOSS company that is located exactly on the other side of the hill of Montmartre, where Ars Aperta is also located. Ikaaro is very easy to use and I encourage everyone to take a look at <a href="http://www.hforge.org">the tools</a> developed by Itaapy: they&#8217;re GPL v3 and some are actually ODF-centric. Last but not least, <a href="http://www.arsaperta.org">our community web site</a> wich hosts many things (although it&#8217;s not being advertised enough) and used to host one of the Pootle servers for OpenOffice.org will stay the same and does not migrate.</p> +<p>I would like to thank everyone at Itaapy and Ars Aperta for this work; stay tuned for announcements related to both Ars Aperta and Itaapy in the future.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=105&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_105" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-11-18T11:17:49+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=910";> <title>Benjamin Horst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wiki Becomes an Official Incubator Project</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/910</link> @@ -251,17 +261,5 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/439494830" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-11-01T23:48:38+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901</link> - <content:encoded><p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS&#8217; marketing).</p> -<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/">open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en">Metamorphosis</a>:</p> -<p>&#8220;Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.&#8221;</p> -<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> -<p>&#8220;The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. 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We migrated <a href="http://www.arsaperta.com">our corporate website</a> to a new server and we moved from a FreeBSD-powered server running <a href="http://caudium.net">Caudium</a> to a Gentoo platform with Apache running on top of it. You won&#8217;t notice much, except for the language selector. However we changed everything under the hood. Our website was minimalistic and Caudium made it fast.</p> +<p>We now use the <a href="http://www.hforge.org/ikaaro">Ikaaro CMS</a> for our website and will soon use its facilities such as calendar and corporate wiki for everyday operations. Ikaaro is developed by our good friends at <a href="http://www.itaapy.com">Itaapy</a>, a french FOSS company that is located exactly on the other side of the hill of Montmartre, where Ars Aperta is also located. Ikaaro is very easy to use and I encourage everyone to take a look at <a href="http://www.hforge.org">the tools</a> developed by Itaapy: they&#8217;re GPL v3 and some are actually ODF-centric. Last but not least, <a href="http://www.arsaperta.org">our community web site</a> wich hosts many things (although it&#8217;s not being advertised enough) and used to host one of the Pootle servers for OpenOffice.org will stay the same and does not migrate.</p> +<p>I would like to thank everyone at Itaapy and Ars Aperta for this work; stay tuned for announcements related to both Ars Aperta and Itaapy in the future.</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=105&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_105" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:17:49 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wiki Becomes an Official Incubator Project</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=910</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/910</link> @@ -238,19 +249,6 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/439494830" height="1" width="1" /></description> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:48:38 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: Open Source Desktops Have Lowest Maintenance Cost</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=901</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/901</link> - <description><p>That open source is more cost effective in initial deployment and ongoing maintenance is not surprising to anyone who uses open source software, despite the premise being attacked by Microsoft (and some people apparently do believe MS&#8217; marketing).</p> -<p>The experience of the German Foreign Ministry is that <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1279/4/lang,en/">open source desktops cost less to operate and maintain than Windows and Microsoft Office-based systems</a>, reports <a href="http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/index.php?lang=en">Metamorphosis</a>:</p> -<p>&#8220;Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.&#8221;</p> -<p>This is an informed opinion, as the Ministry has been working with open source since 2001, and is currently midway through a complete migration to FOSS.</p> -<p>&#8220;The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. &#8220;The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euros per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3,000 euros per desktop per year.</p> -<p>&#8220;The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. &#8220;It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in OpenOffice.&#8221;</p> -<p>The groundwork of the past few years is beginning to pay off for a large number of first-movers around the world. I expect the migration trend will continue to accelerate as more and more case studies help to sway the slower adopters.</p></description> - <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:59:59 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
